Marlena Lewis
Highlands Ranch,CO
Summary
Mechanical engineer proficient in outside sales, operations, and project management. Extensive experience providing solution with regards to technical aspects power distribution systems. Quick to learn complex technical information. Skilled in market outgrowth, financial plan achievement, building organizational capability, and leading teams.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Outside Sales Engineer
EATON CORPORATION
Littleton, CO
11.2022 - Current
- Responsible for bidding, selling, and managing low voltage power distribution gear projects (commercial and residential) to electrical contractors in southern Colorado territory
- Earned over $11.1M in orders and $9.7M in invoices for 2025, exceeding goal requirements
- Proficient in specification review and reading one lines for aforementioned products to provide bids between $50k and $5M
- Created organization reference guide that improved distributor efficiency and provided shortened response time for end customers
- Electively spent time in Denver manufacturing facility to identify manufacturing constraints against customer needs
- Perform market analysis to better poise Eaton products and services to meet customer needs
- Proactively created report with extensive residential market data to understand lost opportunities and product/strategy hindrances
Product Specialist, Transformers
EATON CORPORATION
Littleton, CO
02.2022 - 11.2022
- Highly experienced with medium voltage three-phase and single-phase transformer configuration and design
- Skilled in reading and understanding transformer one-line drawings and wiring schematics
- Responsible for managing and documenting change requests on existing orders
- Personally developed and implemented a new system to streamline and create consistency in change orders for the team
- Wrote and provided training documents on cost refresh SOP for manufacturer’s reps to ultimately prevent pricing errors
- Worked directly with customers to help them understand transformer bill of materials and configuration options
Inside Sales Engineer
EATON CORPORATION
Littleton, CO
06.2021 - 02.2022
- Provided quotes, inside sales support, and order management directly to distributors in Texas territories
- Proactively used outside resources to increase my technical knowledge beyond the scope of my role
- Participated in production meetings and conveyed delays direct to distributors in an effective and honest manner
- Cultivated relationships within my team by providing technical support to the inside sales representatives
Manufacturing Engineer
ORIBI MANUFACTURING
Denver, CO
12.2018 - 06.2020
- Knowledgeable in unidirectional fiberglass and carbon composite layup design for highest strength with lowest weight and cost
- Skilled in product design based on performance capabilities, materials, and improvement of manufacturing
- Capable of hydraulic press mold changes, running and programming routers and waterjets, operating vertical mill and bandsaw
- Experienced in writing robotic drill and trim programs for prototype and new part production
- Improved process for press mold change to optimize repeatability and machine down time by writing work instruction
- Wrote and implemented work instructions and quality checks to standardize operations and create product faster with fewer defects
Production Shift Supervisor
ORIBI MANUFACTURING
Denver, CO
07.2019 - 10.2019
- Planned and executed equipment run schedules to produce greater shop efficiency and part production
- Implemented and tracked daily quality control checks to reduce scrap rates and time wasted on defective parts
Outside Sales
CRISTACURVA
Houston, TX
05.2016 - 12.2018
- Managed customer accounts and large-scale construction jobs
- Handled 35% ($6.5 million) of total revenue for flat glass department in 2017
- Engaged with customers regularly to provide answers, solutions, and information regarding their projects
- Reviewed all technical specifications and performance requirements in order to specify suitable glass configurations
Mechanical Engineer, Application Engineer
FMC TECHNOLOGIES
Houston, TX
01.2012 - 08.2015
- Met with clients to determine design requirements and to present FMC specific options and solutions
- Assisted technicians in assembly, operations and procedures for frac equipment
- Ran engineering calculations on changes in design work to specified levels of safety based on customer requirements
- Used Microstation software to layout entire wellhead systems, confirming fit and function for each part
Education
MBA - Executive Leadership
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Denver12-2026
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
Nashville12.2012
Skills
- Cross-functional leadership
- Project management
- Standard operating procedures (SOP) development
- Sales strategy and forecasting
- Customer retention strategies
- Executive communication
- Engineering support
- Operational efficiency
- Adaptability skills
- Time management techniques
- Organizational skills
- Application engineering
- Pipeline management
- Bid preparation
- Teamwork
- Technical consultation
Proficiencies
- Bluebeam, SAP, Salesforce, Elixir, Vista, Excel, Microsoft Office
Timeline
Sr. Outside Sales Engineer
EATON CORPORATION
11.2022 - Current
Product Specialist, Transformers
EATON CORPORATION
02.2022 - 11.2022
Inside Sales Engineer
EATON CORPORATION
06.2021 - 02.2022
Production Shift Supervisor
ORIBI MANUFACTURING
07.2019 - 10.2019
Manufacturing Engineer
ORIBI MANUFACTURING
12.2018 - 06.2020
Outside Sales
CRISTACURVA
05.2016 - 12.2018
Mechanical Engineer, Application Engineer
FMC TECHNOLOGIES
01.2012 - 08.2015
MBA - Executive Leadership
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY